Acts of the Provincial Council.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume XVIII, Issue 59, 23 July 1859, Page 3

Acts of the Provincial Council.

HOSPITAL RESERVES ACT. An Act to authorize the Superintendent to sell certain Lands in the town of Nelson, held as an Endowment for Hospitals and Lunatic Asylums, and to purchase other Lands in lieu thereof. [Assented to 21st June, 1859.]

Preamble. — Whereas, by an Act passed by the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled the " Public Reserves Act, 1854," it is, amongst other things, enacted that it should be lawful for the Governor of New Zealand, with the advice of his Executive Council, at any time, and from time to time, after the passing of that Act, in the name and on behalf of her Majesty, to grant to the Superintendent of each Proviuce of New Zealand, and his successors, all such estate and interest as her Majesty then had, or might have, in all or any of the lands within such province, forming part of the demesne lands of the Crown, which should have been at any time theretofore, aud then were, or might thereafter be, reserved or set apart for purposes of public utility within the said province, except as therein mentioned : And it was further enacted, that every Superintendent of a province in whom any such lands should become vested should hold the same upon trust for the public service of each province, for the purposes specified in such grant, with as full power to dispose of and mauage the same for such purposes as if the same weve vested absolutely iv such Superintendent, subject to the provisions thereinafter contained : And it was further enacted, that no lands so to be granted should be alienated by way of sale, except by the authority of some Act or Ordinance of the Provincial Council of such province to be passed in that behalf, nor except by deed signed by the Superintendent and sealed with the public seal of the province : And whereas, by a certain deed of grant, bearing date on or about the eleventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, under the hand of Colonel Thomas Gore Brown, C.8., Governor of the colony of New Zealand, and sealed with the public seal of the colony, the said Governor, in the name and on behalf of her Majesty, with the advice of the Executive Council, did grant unto the Superinten- ! dent of the province of Nelson, and his successors, all that piece or parcel of land, containing two acres, more or less, situated in the town of Nelson, marked J on the plan drawn in the margin thereof, to hold the same in trust as an endowment for hospitals and lunatic asylums : And whereas, by an *ict passed by the Provincial Council of the Province of Nelson, in Session 111., number 5, intituled "An Act to authorize the Superintendent to sell and lease certain Lands granted for public purposes in the town of Nelson," it is, amongst other things, enacted that it shall be lawful for the Superintendent of the said province, with the advice of his Executive Council, to sell and dispose of the piece ov parcel of land hereiubefore described, and so granted to him as aforesaid, for such price or sum of money as to the said Superintendent and his Executive Council should seem proper, and to lay out and expend the money so to be received for the said land in the purchase of other lauds in the said province, to be conveyed to the Superintendent and his successors upon the same trusts and conditions as the land thereinbefore authorized to be sold was vested in him : And whereas the Superintendent of the said province, acting with the advice of his Executive Council, sold and disposed of the said piece or parcel of land hereinbefore described for the sum of six hundred and twenty pounds : and whereas, by a certain deed, bearing date the ninth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, made between Henry Seymour, of the town of Nelson, Esquire, of the one part, and Edward William Stafford, Esquire, the Superintendent of the said province, of the other part, iv consideration of the sum of six hundred and twenty pounds paid by the said Superintendent to the said Henry Seymour, he, the said

Henry Seymour, did convey and assure unto the said Edward William Stafford and his successors, as Superintendents of the said Province of Nelson, all that allotment or parcel of land situated within the said town of Nelson, containing two acres, more or less, being town sections numbered respectively 1,030 and 1,032 on the plan of the said town ; and also all that piece or parcel of land also situated within the said town of Nelson, containing one acre, more or less, being town section numbered 1,028 on the plan of the said town, and which said allotment and piece or parcel of land are more particularly delineated and described on the plan drawn in the margin thereof, to hold the same upon the same trusts and conditions as the land granted by the above-recited deed of grant was vested in the Superintendent of the said province : Be it enacted, by the Superintent of the Province of Nelson, with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof —

1. Superintendent may sell certain Lands granted as an Endowment for Hospitals and Lunatic Asylums. — That it shall be lawful for the Superintendent of the said Province, with the advice of his Executive Council, to sell and dispose of the allotments, pieces, or. parcels of land lastly hereinbefore described, and so conveyed to him by the said Henry Seymour as aforesaid, for such price or sum of money as to the said Superintendent and his Executive Council shall seem proper.

2. And purchase other Lands. — It shall also be lawful for the Superintendent, with the advice of his Executive Council, to lay out and expend all or any part of the money so to be received for the said land hereinbefore authorized to be sold in the purchase of other lauds in the said province, to be conveyed to the Superintendent of the said province and his successors, upon the same trusts and conditions as the land hereinbefore authorized to be sold was vested in him.

3. Time when Act fo come into operation. — This Act shall not come into operation until the time in which it may be disallowed by the Governor shall have expired.

4. Short Title.— This Act shall be termed and may be cited as the " Hospital Reserves Act, 1859."